# Treeton Colliery

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Former coal mine in South Yorkshire, England

**Treeton Colliery** was a [coal mine](/source/Coal_mine) situated in the village of [Treeton](/source/Treeton), near [Rotherham](/source/Rotherham), [South Yorkshire](/source/South_Yorkshire), England.

Work on the sinking of Treeton Colliery commenced, with all due ceremony, in October 1875. Trade, at the time, was in a poor state and the company was short of capital so work was suspended three years later not being resumed until March, 1882.

The colliery was owned by the Rother Vale Collieries Limited which was founded in the same year, bringing together the new workings with collieries at Fence and [Orgreave](/source/Orgreave_Colliery). This became part of the [United Steel Companies](/source/United_Steel_Companies) Limited following the end of [World War I](/source/World_War_I).

From its beginnings until 1965 Treeton worked the [Barnsley seam](/source/Barnsley_seam) and the [High Hazels seam](/source/High_Hazels_seam) until the following year. After nationalisation it was decided to increase the output of the [Wathwood seam](/source/Wathwood_seam) and to reopen the [Swallow Wood seam](/source/Swallow_Wood_seam) which had fallen into disuse in 1947. This came on stream in 1972 and lasted until the colliery closed on 7 December 1990. These two seams produced house coal.

## Rail connections

The colliery was situated adjacent to the [North Midland Railway](/source/North_Midland_Railway) line at [Treeton](/source/Treeton) and connected with this. It was also connected to the [Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway](/source/Manchester%2C_Sheffield_and_Lincolnshire_Railway) by a branch line which passed via [Orgreave Colliery](/source/Orgreave_Colliery). Until May 1932 when storms caused parts of three bridges on the branch to be washed away the colliery was served by a [Paddy Mail](/source/Paddy_Mails) which operated at shift change times from [Sheffield Victoria](/source/Sheffield_Victoria_railway_station) and [Darnall](/source/Darnall_railway_station) to serve both Orgreave and Treeton. This train was involved in an [accident](/source/Orgreave_Paddy_Mail_accident) in 1927.

## References

- Paperwork of the Rother Vale Colliery Co.,

- "Coal News", newspaper of the National Coal Board.

v t e Coal mining in Yorkshire Coal mines in North Yorkshire Selby complex2 (Gascoigne Wood, North Selby, Riccall, Stillingfleet, Whitemoor Wistow) Tan Hill Coal mines in South Yorkshire1 Aldwarke1 Askern Barnburgh Barrow Bentley Brodsworth Brookhouse Bullcroft1 Birley Cortonwood Dalton Dinnington Elsecar Fence Harry Crofts1 Hatfield Hickleton High Hazels Huskar Kilnhurst Kiveton Park Maltby Manvers Markham Main New Stubbin North Staveley Nunnery1 Orgreave Rossington Rother Vale Rotherham1 Roundwood1 Silverwood Smithies Thorne1 Thurcroft Tinsley Park Treeton Waleswood Warren House Warren Vale Wath Wharncliffe Woodmoor Yorkshire Main Coal mines in West Yorkshire Caphouse Flockton Frickley Garforth Collieries (Isabella Pit, Sisters Pit, Trench Pit) Kellingley Killingbeck Middleton Shuttle Eye Prince of Wales Upton Waterloo Main Wheldale Woolley Incidents Allerton Bywater Colliery Explosion Cadeby Main pit disaster Lofthouse Colliery disaster Lundhill Colliery explosion Oaks explosion Peckfield Colliery disaster Coalfields and seams Coal seams of the South Yorkshire Coalfield Ingleton Coalfield South Yorkshire Coalfield Industrial relations UK miners' strike (1969) UK miners' strike (1972) UK miners' strike (1984–85) Battle of Orgreave South Yorkshire Miners' Association West Yorkshire Miners' Association Yorkshire Miners' Association Other articles Geology of Yorkshire List of collieries in Yorkshire (1984–2015) Monckton Coke Works National Coal Mining Museum for England British MPs sponsored by mining unions Notes 1 Pre 1974, most coal mines in South Yorkshire were actually in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Those annotated with a number 1, were closed before 1974. 2 The Selby Coalfield straddled the border of North and West Yorkshire

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